________________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Dossey Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:24 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] External call initiation
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 18:46 -0700, Damon Estep wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Dossey > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] External call initiation > > I have a client who needs to be able to initiate an outgoing call from a > legacy Unix application. They use a legacy accounting system on a Unix > system using CRT as a telnet client. They have the ability now to have > the Unix system auto-dial their phone to place a call. For example, > they can pull up a customer or vendor record in CRT. The application > uses the CRT "pass-thru" option to pass a modem dial string through > their PC to a modem plugged into the PC's serial port. The modem is > attached to their telephone so that they lift the receiver, pick an > outgoing line, and the modem dials the number. > > I need to be able to do that using Asterisk and a SIP phone (or an ADSI > phone). Any ideas? Is this possible? > > I was thinking that maybe there would be a way for the Unix box to > command the Asterisk box to connect to the SIP phone, and place the > outgoing call, and then join those 2 connections together. > > TIA > Have your unix app drop a call file in the * queue via ftp, here is more info http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+auto-dial+out Thanks!� That was exactly what I was looking for. ============================================== You might want to ftp the file to a temp dir on the Asterisk server, and then move it to the call file dir (either via ftp, or a local script called by something like dnotify). The reason being Asterisk aggressively grabs files from the call file dir, and can sometimes grab a file before you are finished writing it. -Brian _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
